Archive for January, 2011

Every Home In Brisbane is Now Waterfront!

January 18th, 2011

Brett Clements points out that Brisbane, Australia has a bunch more waterfront property than it did just a few weeks ago. This Platinum HD video promotes Mark Creevey and Tony Williams who specialize in dealing with conditions in a down market. I suspect that they’ll be popular agents in Brisbane for a while. I can’t [...]

Scott Hargis Gets Coverage in The San Francisco Chronicle

January 17th, 2011

I wanted to point out that Scott Hargis and his work was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle last Sunday. The portraits used in the article are by Malia Campbell. Notice the great analogy that Scott makes in the beginning of the article between “looking hot” on match.com and “looking hot” on a real estate listing [...]

Real Estate Photography Talking Points

January 16th, 2011

As a result last monday’s post on how to find real estate photography customers I got questions on what to do when you find the top listing agents. The next step in your marketing is to understand how to talk to listing agents. The two top things listing agents are interested in is 1) Selling [...]

Our Thoughts Best Wishes Are With Our Mates In Queensland!

January 14th, 2011

Our thoughts and best wishes are with our mates in Queensland Trying To Keep Their Head Above Water! Just got a note from Brett Clements. Brett says, “we’re in a bit of shit at the moment. Our Capital, and our State is underwater. We’re trying real hard to get our head above water”. You can [...]

How Do Your Real Estate Tours And Slide Shows Look On The iPad?

January 13th, 2011

Real estate agents and real estate photographers need to be taking the time to find out how their slide shows and home tours look on the iPad. Why? Because iPads don’t run Flash (which most real estate slide shows and tours are based on) and Apple sold between 11 and 13 million iPads in 2010. [...]

Scott Hargis Lighting Workshop Series In Vancouver, BC

January 12th, 2011

Scott just told me today that he’ll be doing a 4 day series of  his lighting workshops in Vancouver, BC Feb 26th through Mar 1. Find all the details and register at the Vancouver Photo Workshop site. Scott does a great workshop. I attended one of his first ones several years ago and it was great [...]

Free PFRE Directory Entry For Active PFREtour.com Users

January 11th, 2011

Over at PFREtour.com we’ve been getting requests from agents that are looking for photographers in various geographic locations that will shoot a PFREtour for them. So I’ve decided to offer active PFREtour.com users (pfretour.com users with 10 or more active tours) a free listing in the World Wide Real Estate Photographer Directory. This will allow [...]

Mastering HD Video With Your DSLR

January 10th, 2011

As a student of video I’m always on the look out for good information sources on video and shooting video. I recently noticed an article at dpreview.com by Uwe Steinmueller titled, Understanding Compression, Codecs, and Transcoding. A lot of good geeky video stuff to get your teeth into in this article but at the bottom it [...]

How To Find Real Estate Photography Customers

January 9th, 2011

Knowing how to shot interiors is just one part of the real estate photography business. The other 60% of the job is finding real estate photography customers and convincing them that your great photography can help them sell their listings. One of the key things you need to understand about finding customers is you don’t [...]

What’s With The Huge Price Reduction Today For Aperture 3?

January 6th, 2011

If you are a Mac user you’ve probably already noticed that the new Mac App Store launched today. You have to update to Mac OS 10.6.6 to access the Mac App Store. Just do a “software update” and it will download and install. The Mac App Store looks and works much like iTunes but is [...]